I think what some of ya'll are missing is it doesn't even have to be inappropriate in today's environment. Heck, it doesn't even have to happen in today's world. All it takes is an accusation.
Yeah that's why you STAY AWAY. Keep your mouth shut comments to yourself and focus on work. The ones who will cause problems know who to go after , just be the opposite
Sounds so simple tell you HAVE to work side by side with them. Then you just be polite and do your best to keep away and talk highly about your wife intentionally to send the clear message.
Ya some how that's seen as a challenge, another woman has you so you are seen as higher value, then there is they like to feel desired so if they are hot enough to get you away from your wife they must be superior. So a challenge and ego boost in one. Since you don't hit on her she starts to think is there is something wrong with me I must not be attractive and insecure daddy issues. So she gets more friendly starts following you around and every time you turn around there she is.
Now a few things happen. Both the guys and other girls notice her following you around. The guys sniffing around her interested get jealous ( causing issues), the women start making comments about her following you around and then seem a bit more friendly themselves. Another prehistoric psychological trait. Eventually she figures out you not ever going to be Interested and even though you never once gave her a hint there was a chance or you were ever interested she some how sees that as rejection like you had been going out and just dumped her and then you have to deal with that type of attitude from her for months at work.
Until you experienced it a few times I guess you can't understand. Many people fall victim to it and end up cheating because let's face it thing get in a rut and it feels good to feel desired and wanted.
I find it best just to stay away from being alone with any woman that's not my wife. But today having other around won't stop them from making sexual charged comments and flirting. And I will do about anything possible to avoid having to work with a woman because of it. Now not all women are a problem and there are plenty of men I don't want to work around. But the men I can tell off or even put on the ground . You just can't handle or speak to a woman like you can a man.
Put a woman in a combat unit. She can't pack the weight so it's now packed by the men. Young woman around young men and it won't be long before intimate relationships develop. Then jealousy comes out and a unit cohesion is destroyed. It's primal men go off to war women stay home. Men don't psychologically react the same to a buddy get blown apart versus a woman or the same when they get captured. There's a reason gender roles of existed for millennia and we all have our roles. There are exceptions and some cross over but men are men and women are women. We haven't changed in thousand of years regardless of what modern independent woman want to believe. Even lesbian couples one assumes the typically male roll.
Sure I can cook well but my wife enjoys it and is better at it. Just like I'm better at cutting fire wood, putting on a new roof and operating equipment. One thing is not more important we compliment each other as a team. I do what I'm good at she does what she excellent at and I help her and she does me. That's what it's all about.
Had a pro woman feminist boss for a few years before she was finally fired. she would have been fired sooner but she was sleeping with one of the top guys. One day I was talking with a coworker when my daughter was working on her pilots license . The boss overheard and chimes in how " that's good we need more wen in that field". Now this woman was late 20's single mom and often vented frustration over the challenge. I looked her dead in the eye and with authority told her no what we need are more women that want be wife's to stay home and be moms and raise their kids. I figured I may end up in the office. She was shocked. I pointed out her struggle as well as my sister's being single mom's and how much easier it is with a dad in the home for emotional and financial support and directly asked her if she thought I was wrong and it wouldn't be much easier and better for her to not have all the responsibility on her shoulders. She nearly short circuit because I hit on single mom struggles she agreed with then the difference from being raised by a single mom myself watching my sister's struggle and the difference my wife and kids and my home has.
She started crying broke down and left